Of course it goes without saying that the media has thus far failed to call the Messiah on this apparently obviously outrageous lie. Unless Obama's "uncle" was serving in the Red Army, its a pretty safe bet he was many hundreds of miles from Auschwitz on its day of liberation.

"In World War Two we didn't have the concept of post traumatic stress syndrome. People had to basically handle it on their own," he said. Referring to an uncle who had been one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz, the concentration camp, Obama said: "The story in the family is he came home and just went up in the attic."

Update [ace]: Duh. Rather than rely on a paraphrase from the WaPo I should have just watched the video, below. He does claim his uncle was one of the first troops to "liberate" Auschwitz.

Apologies for getting this wrong and also for undermining Purple Avenger without doing sufficient checking. UPDATE: VIDEO BELOW THE FOLD [lauraw]: